I swear Billy Cobham has to be one of the best drummers ever, I've heard Moon, Bonham, Bruford, Baker, Tony Williams, but holy cow Cobham was on another level.

Billy Cobham was a beast in Mahavishnu Orchestra. He drove the band and without him it wouldn't have been the same.

One of the most dazzling things I've ever heard was "Dream" off the "Between Nothingness and Eternity" live LP from these guys. Brutal, elegant, graceful and breathtaking...so now, down memory lane I go..

I forget that sometimes thankfully people respond to posts here :-) The impact of Inner Mounting Flame can't be overstated, IMO. It was truly tranformative, as was seeing them play live. He began his shows by saying how the beauty and power of music can be best appreciated when born out of silence. He'd just stand there with his hands together, as if in silent prayer. Then they'd play, and my world changed. It was an adventure...inspiring. This music didn't exist before this album.

Hats off to Bazonics for putting these two clips pt.1 & pt. 2 on YT Massive Thank You! B.

of course, the brilliant Jan Hammer. and the supremely underrated bass player

This is the first time I've ever seen a concert performance of this band. Suffice it to say I bow to their overwhelming awesomeness! When McLaughlin introduced them he should have said "Let me introduce you to the ass kickingest band ever to take the stage!" Thanks bazonics for posting these performances for everyone to see.

THIS........is just 1 of a gazillion reasons KZfaq rocks!!!!!!!!!!

there is something so innate about this rhythm..following along as a kid taught me so much about music. thanks, john, stanley. beck, cobham, etc. forever grateful.

Amazing group, wish I was more than 6 years old when they toured. There is an amazing solo by Jerry Goodman at about the 20 minute mark. Thanks for posting this for those of us too young to have seen it in person.

The first time I listened to the "inner mounting flame album" I was smitten and this upload from that time reminds me of that first impression. What a band! there has NEVER been a band quite like this one . F...... Awesome! A great upload Thank You!

Love it! Old school with rented Marshall (no master volume) Plexi, no effects/reverb, production Gibson EDS-1275 and a cable.

I've never experienced a mongoose and a snake going at it. But if I had to guess at how it would play through my speakers, it would be thus. There is no finer musical banquet than this jewel. These men defined my passion for music. This is greater than any love.

That was one of the best thing i ever found in youtube, thank you so much

What a treat to see this entire show again. Thanks so much for uploading it!

You can't capture the incredible energy at these performances, but this film offers a hint. I saw them about this time as second bill to Emerson, Lake and Palmer at Winterland in San Francisco. They completely blew the audience away. Stole the show. It was amazing. Changed me forever kinda thing. The Chronicle reviewer apparently had the same experience. The Orchestra earned standing ovations after every set.

I've been a MO fan since I was a kid - this is great to see, you're lucky to own it and thanks for the upload.

Astonishingly immaculate musicianship! I had the good fortune to see this same set performed by this amazing crew a few months earlier that year at the Whiskey à Go Go in Hollywood. it was a much more intimate venue, and the entire vibe throughout that night was seething with incredible energy. An unforgettable and extremely visceral experience. I looked forward to seeing them again, and I was able to do so the following year when they tore up the stage at the Roxy. 👍👍

Inner Mounting Flame was that rare album that truly broke new ground. Along with Return To Forever, these guys helped me get through that rather flat period that Rock was going through in the mid 70's. Saw them in Central Park, Philharmonic Hall, the Garden, and Hofstra (w/ Jeff Beck on the bill). Ahhh... the memories...the acid...the mind expansion :-) Thanks for posting!

So interesting . lovely .

I am japanese.I was high school boy. I was no money. So,I can`t go concert. But,now I can lissen Mahabishunu live consert. Thenkyu for uproad. Supesyal Thanks for banzonics.

Very well said. And let me add my "Thank You!"

I saw them in 72 in England at crystal palace supporting Yes amongst others. It was a great day, didn't rain and you guessed it, although I wasn't familiar with their sound, they had impressed most. Close to the edge was good........😃

Thank you. Amazing concert. For those who are too young, this band in '72-'73 was absolutely the height of jazz-fusion & rock. John McLaughlin was my first guitar hero and still is to many today. Go to Amazon today and buy out their catalogue, you won't regret it. For the Mahavishnu fans, I just discovered a new, previously unreleased companion disk to '73's Live album 'Between Nothingness & Eternity' almost an hour of additional music recorded at the Schaefer Music Festival. MP3 format only.

What a treasure. I am deeply grateful. Thank you. Many blessings to you all. We are one with a billion stars, caught between Nothing and Eternity... THANK YOU!!!!!

Amazing...I'll never forget the night they played in Phila & I couldn't go for I was in the hospital; next day my husband proposed to me; this was after he & our 2 girls seen Mahavishnu...

This is SCARY!!!!!!!! In the REAL GOOD WAY!!!!!!

He wore all white when I saw the group in 1973. Cobham blew me away and I bought his solo album. I still have Birds of Fire, the live concert album and Cobham's album.

I just heard Jeff Beck do You Know You Know at Crossroads Fest 2013, I like it alrite but then I remembered just how incredible, Mahavishnu were in this concert. I've seen John McLaughlin a fair few times since 00's but I truly envy those who lived to see this.

the best quality MO video I've seen here. Thanks for posting!

Agree, so accurate is your statement about alternative picking. His skill is never outmoded.

merci

Great video! I saw these guys a few months before this in Ct with some fellow musicians and we were just blown away by their skills as musicians. I doubt we will ever see anything like this again. I liken it to Classical Music which wasn't really understood by the masses until many years after it was originally played. Thanks for posting...a piece of history for sure.

In 72 every band was the "kickingest band ever to take the stage" : ) Those were the golden years from 68 to 79. Close your eyes and tell the cabbie to drop you off at any large music venue and guaranteed someone great was there.

This is amazing. What a great document of this flaming comet of a band.

I saw them play in 1974 with the 11 piece unit and was right in front(front row) of John McLaughlin and Jean Luc Ponty ...It's great to see the origional band and be "on stage" with them ! This is a fantastic show and appreciate this upload VERY MUCH ! McLaughlin used a small Mesa Boogie amp...(like Santana) when I saw them. However..the show was VERY LOUD and bright...(see other Bazonics uploads)

Thanks a million for uploading this great stuff.

Thanks for posting this masterpiece on youtube. I had the album "Inner Mounting Flame" when I was still at school in the late sixties and hearing this brought some fascinating musical appreciation back to me.

What a treat this is! Thank you very much for this excellent footage.

magnifico ,, gigantes jhon y todos estos maestros.

Nostalgia is never quite the same again.

Back in 1972, my brother and I saw this band about a dozen times in the period of a year. They played in CT a lot!

An extended lesson in tempo disguising time. Then one of the coolest progressions ever. After the lamest jam on the best two guitar chords laid down in the seventies. If you can get over the hyperactivity and imagine it all in half time, like the violin, it's good.

I saw the original lineup at Tanglewood when I was, like,11 years old--the first concert I'd ever been to and still maybe the best. Anyway, every other act I've seen since has had a lot to live up to.

Astonishing. Thanks so much!

Fantastic band, fantastic post!

En lo que respecta a el espiritu de la musica, fue unas de las primeras atracciones que afectaron mi vida musical,y matuvo la mahavishnu, como su nombre lo indica, una gran orquesta de los cuales estoy tambien super agradecido...

thanks so much for posting. wonderful

This is greatness.

dynamite! thank you bazonics. another winner!

Agreed, thank you.

Never doubt the power of "The Inner Mounting Flame"!

Thank you !!

I think a valid comparison is actually Frank Zappa. Afaik, he was inspired to just pull out all the stops after walking into a Mahavishnu orchestra, and then just blasted the form to another level, incuding mind-blowing, accurate bends and blistering staccato runs. Still LOVE John M, though!

Thanks for this amazing video!

THE BEST!!!

Amazing. I was a little sad to see on John's website only a fleeting mention of this line-up (and indeed that the atmosphere in the band became an issue after very quick success). What a wild and expressive group, I love these old films of John and his M.O.

for this upload you are now officially known as LEGEND!!!!!

Wow!!!!! Thanks a lot!!!!!

wow thank you for uploading this! Unfortunately I am having a very difficult time finding a good quality recording of them performing "Dawn" live...

Fantastic. Great up.

THANK YOU BAZONICS,I HAD NO IDEA THIS WAS ON HERE.

LOS PADRES DEL YAZZ FUSION PROGRESIVO,MAESTROS Y VIRTUOSOS,COMANDADO POR EL GEÑIO EXTRATERRESTRE JHON M!!!🙆‍♂️🎼🎸🎹💪

I love the back of the amps 'MEH'

He's still considered the grandfather of shred. McLaughlin is still great even by today's standards.

This is a religious experience for me…

I love it!! Can't wait to read a description! *hint hint*

Better a "has been" than a never-was. Good on you for sticking with what you believe in & not selling out. Soon today's "music" will be a has been too. I shudder to think what will replace it...Maybe humanity will awaken its collective coma. And we'll see a return of meaningful music once again. A music Renaissance...Instead of all this American Midolized fakery and posing. Yes the financiers won't risk anything that isn't guaranteed massive profit$. The industry once nurtured talent..No more

The Mahavishnu goes from strength to strength, even in 2011

I meant on the heavy touring they did, for nothing, the man was solid, and that can never be taken away from him!,

I love Jerry's Playing here...always did

RIP Rick Laird, bassist with M.O.

priceless!

Rick Laird earned his place in this ginormous band JM didn't have him om I M F, B O F and the heavy touring these guys did. Remember no one had ever heard music like this, let alone compose, record and perform it worldwide. I saw them at Bill Grahm's Winterland in S.F. This tour they burned down the house!!! WOW

Hehe; how true. Actually, many of John's guitar solos surprised me once I started seeing them on youtube. Back in the day I overlooked his mistakes; particularly his bends, which were surprisingly inaccurate. He's still one of my favs, and I love this band, but he did have some hideous bends, and Jerry Goodman ate his lunch almost every time they traded solos.

Great footage!

The Inner Mounting Flame was actually their first studio album. Jan Hammer on keyboards and Jerry Goodman on violin also made an album together around those years early 70-ies and it is also very good.

Yeah, Rex's instrument was a one of a kind. He also made a sister double neck bass for Miroslav Vitous and it can be seen on the front cover of Miroslav's album Magical Shepard. I've seen the Ibanez up close and it uses ash wood instead of 5A grade Fiddleback Maple, etc. Basically, the original was about a $10,000 instrument (inexpensive for the craftsmanship) back then. The Ibanez copy was called the artwood twin and they did a reissue of it in 2006 called the 2670RE.

nice

II absolutely agree. So good they didn't have Stanley or Miroslav ! Rick is always a real bass player, "simple" warm and helping the music.

My guitar amp is a Fender Blues Junior. My ears liked a certain high ringing sounds that Steve Howe would get from blackface Fender Twin Reverbs and I could hear it in the BJ too, so that's why I got it. If I want to get into Marshall *territory* I have Boss and Dean Markley pedals that give me an approximation but it would really take a closed-back cab to get the right kind of response.

great camerawork, too.

musik futuristik .....you can name it !!!!

oh my god

First 14 1/2 minutes is Meeting of the Spirits, then blends into You Know You Know, both from Inner Mounting Flame.

my chilhood growth

"McLaughlin is still great even by today's standards." A lot of the tapping/legato/sweep-picking players of today should listen to McLaughlin's acoustic work with Paco and Al and learn how to alternate-pick. That level of alternate-picking sounds more "machine-gun" like than all the tapping and legato stuff. Plus, they won't be so dependent on the distortion channel

Thanks so much..some parts almost appear playable by normal humans..not much thoiugh!

Check out Rick Laird's bass.Class

Poor Jan Hammer I can see him struggling with the tech limits of the day. Jerry Goodman sounding good .

FUCK YEAH!!!

bazonics i love you

LMAO! I was sitting next to one of those fools! I was trippin', and told him to effin leave if he didn't like him. We almost got into a fight, which woulda been ironic considering John's plea for a moment of silence, lol. He ended up leaving after one song (this was the late show, Beck came on first - you must've been at the early show). Second row center, and 3 empty seats next to me for John's whole show, lol. You'd think Beck fans (which I'm one of) would be able to appreciate guitar prowess

Szenzációs !!!

That's the great Jerry Goodman on violin.

It is possible that my memory might have got a bit muddled there between the late sixties and the early seventies as these were tumultuous years for me. Nevertheless, John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra stand out as exceptional. Apologies to the chronological purists out there.

Please listen this record loud, your neighbour will be grateful. John used a Marshall 1959 SLP Amplifier without Mastervolume!!! I [iminent=X4yHKAgUWfOB] like iit so much.

We're still out there and with new music, but who is going to convince the concert venues that there is still a market for us. They go where the money is and that's not old baby boomers with fond memories of their past.I can understand their point.They don't want to rent a hall & eat that investment, if the fans don't show up.I've been playing this kind of music for over 40 years. It sucks, when people act like I'm a has been, then I read posts like yours.The money men won't risk it.

If you do a little searching, there was an "exact" (FWIW) copy by Robert Dullam and he was trying to sell it for $10,000 a number of years ago. The story goes that it was stolen shortly after it was made. It's a shame that Rex passed away before he could make more instruments. Apparently, he had some special electronics that were kept secret as to what he was doing as he potted the pickups/electronics to protect his designs. It would have been nice if he made single neck 6,12 and basses.

Ma-vishnu Ban!